This past Sunday's service in case you missed it! | |
April is National Volunteer Month | | |
Where would we be without volunteers...as a church and in society? So many of you are currently serving as volunteers for various organizations or serving individuals. And if you aren't currently serving, you may have in the past, or have been the recipient of someone else's generosity. When we open our hearts to give and receive, it helps all of us. Here's one of the organizations that is part of our community:
The Idaho Falls Soup Kitchen
As the Soup Kitchen celebrates our milestone of meals served, we must thank the many hands who have cooked those meals. The menu started with soup heated on a hot-plate and a peanut butter sandwich and has now grown to a complete hot meal served at the table. There has always been a belief that this should be a served meal as it might be the only time many people actually experience being “served”. All of the meals are cooked by teams from without the community. Some are from businesses, many from churches, a few from social groups. All of our volunteer ministries are working to accomplish this goal.
The team from St. Luke’s always begins their cooking and serving time with the following prayer:
Almighty and most merciful God, we remember before you
all poor and neglected persons whom it would be easy for us
to forget: the homeless and the destitute, the old and the sick,
and all who have none to care for them. Help us to heal those
who are broken in body or spirit, and to turn their sorrow
into joy. Grant this, Father, for the love of your Son, who for
our sake became poor, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Book of Common Prayer page 827
Read more about the Idaho Falls Soup Kitchen here.
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A message from the RCCM:
Good Morning – Thank you to all who participated in the Lenten Services. We had good attendance for our first year to have these services in a while. We appreciate your time, attendance, volunteering of hours or food or church buildings. In total the donations amounted $797.50. I will be sending a check to the Soup Kitchen today for $398.75. The other half will go to the Community Food Basket. Happy Easter – He is Risen!!
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2024 PRIDE SHIRTS
Shirts are now available for purchase through May 12th.
- All orders will be placed by end of day May 12th.
- The Pride Committee chose a black tee shirt for $15 OR a $22 black polo shirt as shown above for this years pride wear!
- We are hoping you will purchase and wear one for Pride!
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You will be able to order through Merlene like we did last year on paper, OR, you can order online.
- Shirts will be printed as 1 large group order and we will pick them up June 1st to disperse.
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Upcoming Celebration: May 5, 2024
We'll be celebrating New Day Lutheran becoming an authorized ELCA congregation in 2019. We'll do this in conjunction with a youth fundraiser. We'll have a time to reminisce about the history of New Day followed by a meal. We need your help to make this a success.
What's needed:
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Your memories! 🙂 Contact Theresa if you have photos or stories you can share.
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Raffle Baskets Do you have items that you can donate for our fundraising efforts??
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Volunteers to assist with set-up, cooking, & clean-up
**Contact church@newdaylutheran.org or Pastor Ann by email or cell phone if you can volunteer or if you have something for a raffle.
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2024 ELCA Youth Gathering |
Robert and Anora are excited to have the opportunity to attend the 2024 ELCA Youth Gathering held in New Orleans this coming summer! Aside from the monthly noisy offering they will be doing some bigger fundraisers as they will need to raise $4500 total for the trip.
- You can use the button below to give online! Just put Youth Gathering where appropriate!
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You can also mail a check made out to New Day Lutheran to:
New Day Lutheran Church
2184 Channing Way #474
Idaho Falls, ID 83404
| Robert and Anora would like to thank everyone who has donated. Our new total raised is $2494! WE ARE OFFICIALLY OVER HALF WAY TO OUR GOAL! Thank you so much! The funds are used for travel, food, housing, and chaperone expenses. |
Noisy Offering
We will have a noisy offering the first Sunday of the month through July to assist the youth attending the National ELCA Youth Gathering in New Orleans. Bring your loose pocket change, or the entire change jar!
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Council
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Sunday April 21 at 10:30am upstairs conference room.
- All congregants are welcome to attend council meetings.
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If you would like to request time to address the council please contact Merlene Brockway at (208) 317-3757 or email president@newdaylutheran.org
Thrivent Choice Dollars & Action Grants
- Do you have Thrivent Choice Dollars that need to be allocated? This is your friendly reminder that New Day would appreciate your generosity if you choose us as your recipient.
- Are you able to help New Day fund projects through an Action Grant? Pastor Ann can help you with ideas or assist you in applying.
Health and Safety Committee
- If you would like to be CPR/first aid/AED trained please contact us at church@newdaylutheran.org
Pride Committee
- We are have formed a Pride committee to work through the logistics of Pride in both Rexburg and Idaho Falls this year!
- Want to help? Let Theresa know!
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Committee: We are meeting Sunday April 28th at 10:30am in the upstairs conference room. Grab your snacks and head on upstairs after worship.
Worship Committee
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Monday Coffee
Mondays 10am Church Parish Hall
Bible Study
Mondays 6pm Church Columbarium Narthex
Beer Group
Tuesdays 3pm Idaho Brewery Idaho Brewing Company
Book Club
1st Wednesday each month 4pm Church Parish Hall
Thursday Coffee
Thursdays 10am Greenhouse Coffee
Dog Gone Fun Day
1st Friday each month 4pm Idaho Falls Dog Park if 50°+ and no precipitation.
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Luther Heights Bible Camp | We are an owner of Luther Heights Bible Camp - so it is important we are invested in the things they are up to! If you need more info on them, call 208-886-7657 or email them at info@lutherheights.org | | | |
NWIMS (Northwest Intermountain Synod)
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NORTHWEST INTERMOUNTAIN SYNOD
REGIONAL GATHERINGS 2024
FUNDING FORWARD:
STEWARDSHIP FOR TODAY AND TOMORROW
Ezra 3:10-13
In this passage, we meet the Israelites as they are trying to find their ‘new normal’ after the destruction of the first temple and the rebuilding of the second. There is a mix of both grief and hope in the air as the foundation is being laid. This passage reminds us to tend to the variety of emotions present as we tend to the work of innovation in the church today.
We are excited to invite you to one of Regional Gatherings this coming spring. This will be an opportunity to learn together, to reconnect with friends and build relationships with people from neighboring congregations.
April 27, 2024 - Advent Lutheran Church - Spokane Valley, WA
May 4 - Our Savior Lutheran Church - Twin Falls, ID
May 18 - First Lutheran Church - Ellensburg, WA
9:30 am Registration 10:00 am Gathering
Congregation Registration will be sent out to congregations in February. Each congregation is asked to register for the day-long event closest to you. The registration fee is $300 per congregation. Bring as many people as you would like. In March, information will be sent to register participants. There will be $15 fee per person to cover lunch expenses. The Gathering will conclude at 4:00 pm.
Our presenter is Grace Pomroy who is the Director of the Stewardship Leaders Program at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, MN. She’s a lay, millennial stewardship leader, speaker, and financial educator based in Allyn, WA. She is the co-author of the stewardship book, Embracing Stewardship: How to Put Stewardship at the Heart of Your Congregation’s Life, as well as author of the 2013 ELCA stewardship resource, “Stewards of God’s Love.” She is currently working on a book about alternative financial models for ministry with Fortress Press, an imprint of 1517 Media.
A Message from Bishop Manlove
Regional Gatherings - What, Why, and Who?
I have been reading instructor Grace Pomroy’s Stewardship Leaders Newsletter for at least five years. I know the word stewardship does not excite everyone as much as it does me, so let me state clearly that there has always been something unique about Pomroy’s approach to generosity and stewardship. It is holistic, includes both data and stories, creative (but not trendy), and it is always grounded in scripture and prayer. Last summer, when I read the draft of her forthcoming book, I loved the way she started with the Ezra 3:10-13 passage and also began each chapter with Dwelling in the Word (similar to Lectio Divina). Over the years, I learned that Pomroy’s seminary students do case studies on the various ways churches are finding or creating funding streams beyond the Sunday offering. So, when she said she was available to present at our three regional gatherings this spring, I was elated.
The regional gatherings are something I have been excited about since the idea first arose. Full-disclosure, I was one of the original three authors of the resolution that moved us into this experiment. I wonder sometimes if people think we wrote the resolution because we disliked synod assemblies. Nothing could be further from the truth. I love synod assemblies! I also love long retreats and full weeks at our outdoor ministry sites. I love the ELCA Youth Gathering. I am a product of so many of our Lutheran gathering events and spaces. My faith in the Triune God has been nourished, my soul has been fed, my conscience prodded, my sense of belonging and belovedness nurtured, and my imagination opened by gathering with other Christians.
I helped write the original resolution about regional gatherings because I wanted more people in our synod to have access to those spaces. Generally, only two lay voting members can attend from each church. Who can take off work and who can be away from home for two nights limits who is available to be voting members. We knew, back in 2018, that when we gathered people, as we did for the Treasure Valley Cluster church council leadership retreats, that they all enjoyed being together and learning from one another. That was pre-global-pandemic, so consider our desire now for companionship and knowing we are not following Jesus on our own. Finally, we original authors recognized the financial burden of annual synod assemblies on many congregations. The regional gatherings are less than one-third the cost for food and lodging. There are even more savings when calculating travel costs. Yes, some things are lost in not having synod assembly annually, but I still believe the gains can and will outweigh those losses.
There were around 250 of us in the Tri-cities for Synod Assembly 2023. What if 150-200 people attended each of the regional gatherings in 2024? We would double the number of people who have an experience learning, praying, worshiping, and eating with other Lutheran Christians across our synod! Who in your congregation would like a day with other ELCA Lutheran Christians? Who is ready to be inspired by Grace Pomroy, who cares deeply about congregational life and grounds her work in rich scriptural interpretation and wonderful questions? Who wants to get to know other people in your congregation with a mini-road trip to Twin Falls, Spokane Valley, or Ellensburg? Get ready to register and we will see you this spring.
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News From St. Luke's
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- You can use the button below to give online!
- You can also mail a check made out to New Day Lutheran to:
New Day Lutheran Church
2184 Channing Way #474
Idaho Falls, ID 83404
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